After getting my Msc degree Civil Engineering in 1997, I worked for a software firm (IT Works), engineering consultancy (DHV) and a municipality (Rotterdam) before returning to TU Delft for a PhD at the Transport & Planning dept. of Civil Engineering in 2001, which I finished in 2004 (on ‘Freeway travel time prediction’). Since then I was assistant (until 2009) and associated professor and appointed Anthony van Leeuwenhoek Professor in 2013 (all at the same department).
My research lies on the interface between traffic flow theory and simulation and advanced data processing and assimilation. I have worked (with my colleagues and PhD students) on travel time reliability; on new traffic flow theories and models; and on data assimilation and fusion methods for estimating and predicting the traffic state in networks. Many of these research projects have led to follow up and valorisation projects in which the developed models and tools have led to innovative applications in practice.
Cats O., Vermeulen A., Warnier M. and van Lint H. (2020). Modelling Growth Principles of Metropolitan Public Transport Networks. Journal of Transport Geography, 82, 1-10.
de Ruijter A., Cats O and van Lint, H. (2023). Ridesourcing Platforms’ Reliance on Socio-Economic Inequalities. 8th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS 2023), Nice, France.
de Ruijter A., Cats O and van Lint, H. (2023). Do Ridesourcing Platforms Need Socio-Economic Inequality to Thrive? Preprint at Research Square: https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-2543947/v1/eeac36e9306819cfbc3b8082.pdf?c=1676542865
de Ruijter A., Cats O and van Lint, H. (2022). Emerging Dynamics in Ridesourcing Markets. Preprint at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4258151
de Ruijter A., Cats O., Kucharski, R. & van Lint, H. (2022) Emerging Dynamics of Two-Sided Ridesourcing Platforms, 101st Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.
de Ruijter A.J.F., Cats O. and van Lint J.W.C. (2022). Service Dynamics of Two-Sided Ridesourcing Platforms: A Bottom-Up Approach. 15th International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT 2022), Tel Aviv, Israel.
de Ruijter, A., Cats, O. & van Lint, H. (2022). Emerging Dynamics in Ridesourcing Platforms. 10th symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Leuven, Belgium.
de Ruijter, A., Cats, O., Kucharski, R. & van Lint, H. (2022). Evolution of labour supply in ridesourcing. Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 10:1, 599-626.
de Ruijter, A., Cats, O., Kucharski, R., Van Lint, H. (2021). Day-to-day Supply Side Evolution of Ride-Sourcing. 9th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Virtual, February 2021.
de Ruijter, A., Cats, O., Kucharski, R., Van Lint, H. (2021). Evolution of Labour Supply in Ridesourcing, 100th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, Virtual.
Thijs van de Wiel (2021). Impacts of COVID-19 Risk Perceptions on Train Travel Decisions: a Hierarchical Information Integration Analysis. MSc Thesis TU Delft.
Shelat S., Cats O. and van Lint H. (2021). Quantifying Travellers’ Evaluation of Waiting Time Uncertainty in Public Transport Networks. Travel Behaviour & Society, 25, 209-222.
Cats O., Krishnakumari P., Arbez N., Chiabaut N. and van Lint H. Empirical Evaluation of the Efficiency and Effectiveness of a Ride-Sourcing Service. 99th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC. January 2020.
Degeler, V., Heydenrijk-Ottens, L., Luo, D., van Oort, N., van Lint, H. (2020), Unsupervised approach towards analysing the public transport bunching swings formation phenomenon, Public Transport
Krishnakumari P., Cats O. and van Lint H. Day-to-day and Seasonal Regularity of Network Passenger Delay for Metro Networks. 99th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC. January 2020.
Krishnakumari P., Cats O., van Lint H. (2020). Estimation of Metro Network Passenger Delay from Individual Trajectories. Transportation Research Part C, 117, 102704.
Shelat S., van Oort N., Mantouka E., Moneteiro M., Strompou I., Cats O. and van Lint H. (2020). Subjective Beliefs Regarding Waiting Time in Public Transport Networks in The Netherlands, Greece, and Portugal”. European Transport Conference, September 2020.
E. Mantouka, E. Vlahogianni, A. Papacharalampous, L. Heydenrijk-Ottens, S. Shelat, V. Degeler, H. van Lint (2019), Understanding Travel Behaviour Through Travel Happiness, Proceedings of the 98th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
Krishnakumari P., Cats O. and van Lint H. (2019). Heuristic Coarsening for Generating Multiscale Transport Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems, in press.
Krishnakumari P., van Lint H., Djukic T. and Cats O. (2019). A Data Driven Method for OD Matrix Estimation. Transportation Research Part C, in press.
Luo D., Cats O. and van Lint H. (2019). Can Passenger Flow Distribution be Estimated Solely based on Network Properties in Public Transport Systems? Transportation. In press.
Luo D., Cats O. and van Lint H. (2019). “Enhanced Complex Network Representation of Public Transport for Accessibility Assessment based on General Transit Feed Specification Data”. TransitData2019, Paris. July 2019.
Luo D., Cats O., van Lint H. and Currie G. Integrating Network Science and Public Transport Accessibility Analysis for Comparative Assessment. Journal of Transport Geography, 80, 1-10.
Shelat, S., O. Cats, N. van Oort, J.W.C. van Lint (2019), Calibrating Route Choice Sets for an Urban Public Transport Network using Smart Card Data, Proceedings of IEEE MT-ITS conference, Krakow.
Degeler, V., L. Heydenrijk-Ottens, D. Luo. N. van Oort, H. van Lint (2018), Unsupervised approach to bunching swings phenomenon Analysis, Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport and TransitData (CASPT), Brisbane, Australia.
Heydenrijk-Ottens, L., V. Degeler, D. Luo, N. van Oort, H. van Lint (2018), Supervised learning: Predicting passenger load in public transport, Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport and TransitData (CASPT), Brisbane, Australia.
Krishnakumari P., Perotti A., Pinto V., Cats O. and van Lint V. (2018). Understanding Network Traffic States using Transfer Learning. The 21st International IEEE conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Hawaii , 4-7 November.
Luo D., Bonnetain L., Cats O. and van Lint H. (2018). Constructing Spatiotemporal Load Profiles of Transit Vehicles with Multiple Data Sources. Transportation Research Record, in press.
Luo D., Bonnetain L., Cats O. and van Lint H. (2018). Constructing Spatiotemporal Load Profiles of Transit Vehicles with Multiple Data Sources. Proceedings of the 97th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
Luo D., Cats O. and van Lint H. “Can Passenger Flow be Explained by Network Topology in Public Transport?”. Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport and TransitData (CASPT), Brisbane, Australia. July 2018.
Shelat, S., Huisman, R., & van Oort, N. (2018). Analysing the trip and user characteristics of the combined bicycle and transit mode. Research in Transportation Economics.
De Regt K., Cats O., van Oort N. and van Lint H. (2017). Investigating Potential Transit Ridership by Fusing Smartcard Data and GSM Data Transportation Research Record, 2652, 50-58.
De Regt K., Cats O., van Oort N. and van Lint H. (2017). Investigating Potential Transit Ridership by Fusing Smartcard Data and GSM Data. Proceedings of the 96th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
Luo D., Cats O. and van Lint H. (2017). Analysis of Network-wide Transit Passenger Flows based on Principal Component Analysis. The 5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS2017), Naples, 744-749.
Luo D., Cats O. and van Lint H. (2017). Constructing Transit Origin-Destination Matrices using Spatial Clustering. Transportation Research Record, 2652, 39-49.
Luo D., Cats O. and van Lint H. (2017). Constructing Transit Origin-Destination Matrices using Spatial Clustering. Proceedings of the 96th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
Papacharalampous A.E., Cats O., Lankhaar J-W., Daamen W. and van Lint H. (2016). Multi-Modal Data Fusion for Big Events. Proceedings of the 95th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
Papacharalampous A.E., Cats O., Lankhaar J-W., Daamen W. and van Lint H. (2016). Multi-Modal Data Fusion for Big Events. Transportation Research Record, 2594, 118-126.
